"To support this we will be introducing a ‘Birmingham Reward Card’ that allows residents to earn points that can be redeemed against payments to the council, attendance at cultural and sporting events with partners or with local businesses that join the scheme”.

Cllr Randal Brew (Image: Birmingham Post and Mail)

The Conservatives say they would be based on the technology contained in the Swift Travel Card used on buses and trams in the region to reduce set up costs.

The Conservative manifesto also confirms their commitment to weekly household waste collections , scrap the InReach private housing development arm under which the council builds and sells homes at full market price and create a Head Start In Life fund to ensure vulnerable primary school children get the skills they need.

How a city tree might look (Image: Birmingham Conservatives)

They will also invest in living walls not only on the Aston Expressway, to green up the city. Their 'city trees' would line roads and help absorb noise and pollution.

Conservative leader Robert Alden said: “We have a plan to get Birmingham clean again after the mess of Labour’s 221 day bin dispute, our plans set out how to build one city, a cleaner, greener and safer city, a city of aspiration and a plan to house our city.”